| Stairwell – Breathless Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Also, another verse is incorrect. It should read: And I can start to see your smile Out of the blue, tone colored sky While the fireworks are lighting up your eyes And everything is sitting still Paints a picture, such a view Which is you, my dear, its you |
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| Stairwell – Breathless Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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There's a verse missing here. After the first instance of "breathless with not much to say/you sent me to the top of the world/breathless with not much to say", there is a second verse: Driving around the town, I can't recover The spell you put me under, it's just too late This radio is playing the song That got us up to dance around The record is spinning around and around To the sounds of change |
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| Bon Iver – Wedding Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It should read, "the almond and the apple", not "the only and the apple". | |
| Grand Archives – George Kaminski Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song's namesake is actually a prison inmate. Check this out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41883-2005Mar16.html The current record holder is a Pennsylvania prison inmate, George Kaminski. While serving time on a kidnapping conviction for the past 25 years, Kaminski has gathered 72,927 four-leaf clovers. He found them, one at a time, hidden in the grass of prison yards. Kaminski was not available for an interview, but a caseworker at the minimum-security facility in Mercer, Pa., relayed a few questions and answers by phone. Kaminski said he started finding the clovers to show a younger inmate who was depressed that "you can do anything you set your mind to." |
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| Rich Mullins – Peace Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm not so sure that's an accurate reading of the song. I think it has more to do with the longing for connection and brotherhood with those who partake with us of the communion of Christ. The song's subtitle is "A Communion Blessing from Saint Joseph's Square". And I think the reference to communion is clear in the lyrics. It's about the love that exists (or should exist) even between strangers when one is truly living in Christ. | |
| The Avett Brothers – Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not a political meaning, I don't think, but a moral one. I see this as an appeal to moral objectivism, that is the belief that the ideas about things like what's wrong and what's right aren't merely abstractions created by humanity, but are real things of real consequence. A vindication of the older, "black and white" way of seeing the world -- "I'm frightened by those who don't see it." That is, those who don't see right and wrong as real things. Other parts of this song seem to support this reading. A darkness flooded in light could mean the darkness of humanity that is illuminated by an exterior presence; also the response to a "head full of doubt" is just to keep screaming until those "bad thoughts are finally out." |
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| Neko Case – Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I like the fact that the first time you see this song title, you expect it to be some kind of hippie manifesto (never turn your back on = never abandon, never betray), but when you actually listen to the words it's actually almost the exact opposite (never turn your back on = never underestimate, never fully trust). | |
| Sera Cahoone – Couch Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a great love song. It's realistic about relationships, but still romantic at the same time. It doesn't try to sugarcoat love as if once you've found the right person, everything will be perfect, like today's popular culture would have us believe. Fights and sleeping on the couch still happen even in the best, most meant-to-be relationships. This song is about apologies, forgiveness, and coexisting even in the midst of fighting. | |
| Band of Horses – The General Specific Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Correction to laurenphook's posted lyrics: It's not "Where hungry necks that I know", it's "We're hungry, next thing I know" | |
| Band of Horses – The General Specific Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Another correction: Going back to the south, we're hungry, next thing I know, you're running a blender..." | |
| Band of Horses – The General Specific Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Another correction: Going back to the south, we're hungry, next thing I know, you're running a blender..." | |
| Band of Horses – The General Specific Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| A couple corrections "If your trials here are realling getting you down", and "the end of December, what's goin' on?" | |
| The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 3 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The man who gains a wife that is secretly an animal and then loses his wife because he finds out her true identity is a common theme in Japanese folklore. An even more common theme is that a man disobeys a command given him by his wife, usually not to look at her while she is doing something which reveals her supernatural nature, this discovery leading to their separation. A great deal, though by no means all, of Japanese folktales end in this bittersweet sadness left in the wake of the wife's parting. This aesthetic is called "mono no aware", meaning something like "tragic beauty that comes from the bittersweet sadness of things". | |
| The Decemberists – The Crane Wife 1 and 2 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is inspired by the Japanese Folktale of the same name. Here's a link to the original story: http://mukashibanashi.org/cranewife.html |
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